Alerting services

Keep up to date with publishing in your research field with Table of Contents (ToC) and Saved Search Alerts.

ToC Alerts email you the Table of Contents of journals each time a new issue is published.

Saved Search Alerts let you save a favourite search and have the results emailed to you regularly.

To view the full-text of articles and records included in the alerts, off-campus users should access the database or ejournal collection via the links on the Library database lists. If you're on-campus, use the links in the alerts to view the full-text.

The Browzine app for iOS and Android tablets (phones to come) makes browsing Tables of Contents and downloading PDFs faster than via a PC or laptop

Set up Saved searches and alerts which notify you when new material meeting your search criteria has been added to the Library's collection.
Login to MyLoans, then create your search.
Click the Save as preferred search button.
To set this search up as an alert, click Return to your record & then the My Searches button. Tick Mark for email > Update List beside the searches for which you want alerts.
More help

Current Contents Connect via Web of Science
A specialist alerting service which indexes more than 3800 science, social science, arts and humanities journals.

ASAP Alerts - daily or weekly e-mail alerts when individual articles (Articles ASAP) are released on the web, prior to being assigned to an issue
Table of Contents - e-mail alerts on the day the complete issue is posted on the web, enabling you to scan the issue's entire contents at once.More

BMJ Evidence Updates is a service made available by the BMJ Publishing Group that incorporates the McMaster PLUS email alerting system and searchable database of best evidence from the medical literature

Note: Links to the alert histories from email alerts only last for a limited period of time. The amount of time that you can go back is generally 1 - 2 months, & varies with the amount of storage which is available. Expired links generate a No records in set message. For a permanent set of results, send the results to a project within OvidSP, email text, or add to an Excel spreadsheet or to an EndNote Library.

Go to ScienceDirect and click Not Registered? in the top right-hand corner. You may then Save searches,
create Search Alerts, Topic Alerts, Volume/Issue Alerts and Citation Alerts, and
Create a Favorite Journal and Book Series List which you can browse and search

To set up or manage Current Contents Connect Saved Search and ToC alerts, and Web of Science Saved Search and Citation Alerts, you must be registered at Web of Knowledge, and you must sign in. Register at Web of Knowledge

Saved Search Alerts - Perform your search in Web of Science and click the Save history tab > Save History/Create Alert. You will be prompted to login or register at Web of Knowledge. Ensure you check Send me Email Alerts

Personal Citation Alerts - notifies you by e-mail whenever an article on your My Cited Articles List has been cited by a new article.
To create a Citation Alert perform your search in Web of Science then click the Create Citation Alert button in the record display. You will be prompted to login or register at Web of Knowledge. The record will be added to My Cited Articles List in Web of Knowledge.